The Imām, ibn al-Mubārak said:
“Whoever belittles the scholars has lost his
hereafter and whoever belittles the leaders has
lost his worldly life and whoever belittles the brothers has lost his
sense of honour.”
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See Sīyar Ā’lam
al-Nubāla’, adh-Dhahābī, Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Bayrūt, Lubnān: Mu’assasat al-Risālah (8/308).
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